Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits by which we are nurtured and live.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself who care little for his pursuits and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.